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PHP Frameworks: What, When, Why and Which?

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What is a PHP Framework? PHP is the world’s most popular scripting language for many different reasons – flexibility, ease-of-use, among others – but often times coding in PHP, or any language for that matter, can get rather monotonous and repetitive. That’s where a PHP framework can help. PHP frameworks streamline the the development of web applications written in PHP by providing a basic structure for which to build the web applications. In other words, PHP frameworks help to promote rapid application development (RAD), which saves you time, helps build more stable applications, and reduces the amount of repetitive coding for developers. Frameworks can also help beginners to build more stable apps by ensuring proper database interaction and coding on the presentation layer. This allows you to spend more time creating the actual web application, instead of spending time writing repetitive code. The general idea behind the workings of a PHP framework is referred to as Mo

37 More Shocking jQuery Plugins

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It’s really amazing to see what one can create using jQuery. Developers just don’t stop making incredibly interactive web applications every now and then. This post just demonstrates excellent examples of some of the best jQuery plugins out there. jQuery Sliders 1) Slider Gallery - A similar effect used to showcase the products on the Apple web site. This ‘product slider’ is similar to a straight forward gallery, except that there is a slider to navigate the items, i.e. the bit the user controls to view the items. Simple stuff. Live Demo: Here 2) Accessible slider - Illustrations and code samples showing how to make a slider UI control accessible to those who aren’t running JavaScript or CSS. Live Demo: Here jQuery Manipulating Images 3) crop, labelOver and pluck -Crop-Gives your visitors the power to crop any image on the fly using JavaScript only. Also there are 2 other plugins: LabelOver and Pluck. Live Demo Of Crop: Here Live Demo of LabelOver: Here